XTERM-WRAPPER(1)

This program has been superceded by ptmx-fake.

Name

xterm-wrapper - Allocate pty, handle utmp and run xterm

Synopsis

xterm-wrapper [options for xterm]

Description

xterm is setuid root in order for it to manipulate utmp, wtmp, lastlog and to allocate a pty securely. xterm is also linked against the X libraries, which were not written with security in mind, and there are bugs which in the X libraries which can be exploited via xterm to get superuser priviledge.

xterm-wrapper is a program that handles logfiles and pty allocation, and then calls the real xterm program.

Environment

DISPLAY to get name of the display to use.

Author

Peter Benie, Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge (UK)

Source

xterm-wrapper.tar.gz

INSTALL
SPEC
Makefile
main.c
parse.c
sessreg.c
wrapper.h
xterm.patch

Peter Benie <pjb1008@cam.ac.uk>